Embryonic stem cell policy debate round-up

Tony Snow looks at Sen. Frist's stance and says The doctor is out.

Charles Krauthammer thinks Frist is right, but warns Stem cell research without limits is a bad idea.

Tim Chapman at the From the Bleachers blog links to Kansas Senator Sam Brownback's op-ed in which he points out, among other things, that embryonic stem cells haven't led to one promising treatment while adult stem cells have 65 published treatments.

If you missed it before, see also Paul Greenberg's "A Modest Proposal", which discusses how we've been down similar paths before, with, for instance, medical experiments done by the Japanese on prisoners of war "who were going to be worked to death anyway, so why not put them to some scientific use?" Greenberg knows why not. (And I agree with him.)